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The 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival did it again, With a significant rise in participation, attendance and revenue, it would seem that there is a hunger for new edgy works for Los Angeles audiences. Official HFF17 Stats The eighth Hollywood Fringe sold an estimated $540,000 in ticket sales. This is a 21% increase in ticket sales from last year. The numbers reflect a growth trend that has been ...

As the intimate theatre scene in Los Angeles is looking to stabilize itself, when in December Actors Equity Association, the national union for stage actors and stage managers, implemented a change in the use of its members by intimate theatres in Los Angeles. Despite the fact that the change had been put to a vote among members and was overwhelmingly defeated by a 2 to ...

Last week New Musicals Inc. filed a charge against Actors Equity Association through the National Labor Relations Board. The charge centers upon unfair business practices, accusing AEA of placing New Musicals Inc. on a “Do Not Work” list without cause. Actors Equity Association is demanding that its members do not engage with NMI, threatening union members with penalties, sanctions and possible expulsion from the union. ...

Is there life after the Hollywood Fringe Festival? Yes! Of course! Last season Hollywood Fringe founder Ben Hill spoke to the excitement and changes with each HFF season, including some of the How To’s for international shows participating in the local scene . But a next step for productions who want to go further than a 2-week run once the #fringeproms, Twitter chats and regular ...

How to keep a 20 year old Fringe Festival fresh? If the Fringe Festival is in New York City, apparently you skip a year. According to the Festival’s website, the hiatus will allow organizers to restart with a (insert mixed art metaphor here) blank canvas. No further explanation is given. From their website: While the New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) celebrates our first twenty ...

The Hollywood Fringe Festival has announced the winners of the 2017 Fringe Scholarships. The 10 winners were chosen from an applicant pool of 150. The applications were evaluated based on how much impact the production would have on the overall attraction of audience and the production’s potential to increase the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of artists and audience. The winners of the 2017 Fringe Scholarships ...

Although 2016 theater news in Los Angeles was dominated by the battle over the elimination or preservation of the 99-Seat Plan, there were other stories that captured Footlights readers’ attention as well. Here are the 10 most-read pieces of 2016, along with their opening paragraphs. There’s a mix of both aggregated coverage and original insights. The list gives some indication of what theater-goers found most ...

Venue management and live performance production company Theater Asylum/Combined Artform is returning to Hollywood Row and has just announced a new partnership with Studio C Artists the production, casting, and arts education company founded by director John Coppola and producer Michael Sonntag. Asylum’s Mattew Quinn will be working with Operations Manager, Bertha Rodriguez who started Combined Artform with Quinn in 1998. The team will be ...

The Hollywood Fringe Festival has released final numbers on its 2016 event: The Festival sold over 56,000 individual tickets. Ticket sales have increased more than 300% since the inaugural festival (2010). The festival sold an estimated $447,000 in tickets this year. Approximately 60% of all tickets were “Fringe-sold” (sold directly through the Fringe’s website and box office) and the remaining 40% of transactions were “venue-sold” ...